When I recently saw the headline “Solving the TV station hardware dilemma” on the Broadcast Engineering website, I stopped to read.

Even though the article turned out to be about integrated playout (i.e., channel-in-a-box) automation servers rather than a debate about hardware versus software in a broadcast facility, it got me thinking about the shift in broadcasting toward IT-oriented technologies, and what vendors are doing about this market transition.

To better understand these issues, we asked the nearly 800 broadcast technology vendors who responded to the 2010 Big Broadcast Survey about the makeup of their current and future product portfolio. Vendors were asked to break down the sources of their revenue by product hardware, software, maintenance and service.

Click here to read the full article, including four charts that break out the research results.

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